every city in america had not one newspaper, but five, 10, 15 newspapers. and they were as partisan as any blogs or websites today. and they would take his words and twist them. so, he had more message discipline, you want to talk about that, as a political virt virtue. his message discipline was incredible, the time he would spend over every word he was going to say so that what went out from him was exactly what he wanted to say at any given time. and this was the beginning of the modern age. it's not the end of the past. he had the telegraph. he invented the role of commander in chief. before that, it was in the constitution, but nobody knew what that meant. the general would march out to fight in mexico and would soon be out of range of communication and whatever the president thought, the general was going to do what he wanted. lincoln could be in communication every day. >> what's the advice? if you could sit down with governor romney and president obama and say, listen, i've just written this giant bok on lincoln, here's what you should take away? ce